I am excited for the National Genealogical Society 2014 conference. Registration opens tomorrow and I will sign up not only for the conference, but for the BCG Education Fund Workshop on Tuesday as well. I hope to see many of you there.
Press Release from NGS:
Registration will open on Sunday, 1 December 2013,
for the National Genealogical Society’s thirty-sixth annual family
history conference, Virginia: The First Frontier, which will be held 7–10 May 2014
at the Greater Richmond Convention Center and the Marriott Hotel in
Richmond, Virginia. Virginia was home to an ever-changing frontier. From
Jamestown to Kentucky its people moved ever forward looking for new
frontiers and it is this spirit that the conference celebrates as we
move to new frontiers in research. The conference will open with Sandra
Treadway, Librarian and Archivist of Virginia, who will address the
issues that research institutions face as they enter the digital
frontier and how they are working to meet the ever-changing needs of
their patrons.
Continuing
its goal of providing quality educational opportunities to its
participants, the conference will again feature the Board for
Certification of Genealogists’ Skillbuilding track, which focuses on
research techniques useful to both the beginning and the advanced
researcher. Among the eighteen lectures in the migration track are David
Rencher’s “From Ulster to Virginia and the Carolinas,” Eric Grundset’s
“The Chesapeake and New England: Colonial Connections and Migrations,”
and J. Mark Lowe’s “The Migration Triangle: Virginia, the Carolinas, and
Tennessee.” A two-day German track features lectures on German research
in both the United States and Europe. Single-day tracks focus on DNA,
NARA, military, and African American research and include tracks
sponsored by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the
New England Historic and Genealogical Society. Technology and its
increasing role in research is addressed in a variety of presentations
including a full-day track on ways to use technology to help you share
your family’s story. And, last but not least, for those who have
Virginia ancestors, we promise at least one session every hour of every
day.
To register online, visit the NGS website at http://conference. ngsgenealogy.org/event- registration/ and complete the registration form.
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